'Jury Booty' and Anti-prosecution tactics. (Was Re:)

[John Young]

Maybe Tim May is channeling me, but this talk of messing
with authorities on cypherpunks smells like list tampering to
bait and ensare really dumb newbies.

Playing games is fine, but running entrapments is against
the house rules.

That was encouraged in days of old and got jail sentences
for susceptibles. Since then agent provocateurs, turn-coats
and informants have become a nice-paying online industry
and handsome budget inflators for the feds.

And has bagged a wad of hackers, daring coders and alleged
accomplices, among them:

Jim Bell
Carl Johnson
Aaron Swartz
Chelsea Manning
Julian Assange
Edward Snowden
Gottfrid Warg
Rop Gonggrijp
Brigitta Jonsdottir
Jacob Appelbaum
Hector Monsegur
Jake Davis
Ryan Cleary
Ryan Ackroyd
Darren Martyn
Donncha O'Cearrbhail
Mustafa al-Bassam
Jeremy Hammond
Christopher Cooper
Joshua Covelli
Raynaldo Rivera
Cody Kretsinger
Lauri Love
Neal Rauhauser
Keith Downey
Mercedes Haefer
Donald Husband
Ethan Miles
James Murphy
Drew Phillips
Jeffrey Puglisi
Daniel Sullivan
Tracy Valenzuela
Christopher Vo
Barrett Brown
Ross Ulbricht
Andrew Jones
Gary Davis
Peter Phillip Nash
Vladimir Drinkman
Aleksandr Kalinin
Roman Kotov
Dmitriy Smilianets
Mikhail Rytikov

These are in last few years.

Many more in the years before that, some after prison
becoming security peddlers, journalists, hacker organizers
and for the rest of their lives rats or sent back into the pokey.

At least consider being bit more discreet, assholes,
and in spare time read Gentlepersons Guide to Forum
Spies:

http://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm